Pence staying at Trump resort in Ireland, far from meetings (180 miles)

[spanone]

Vice President Pence is staying at a Trump resort during an official trip to Ireland even though it is roughly 180 miles away from Dublin, where he is participating in meetings.

Pence stayed at Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg, which is on the western coast of Ireland, on Monday and traveled by plane to Dublin for official meetings on Tuesday. He will travel back to Doonbeg following meetings in Dublin.

Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, told reporters Tuesday morning that Pence was originally supposed to travel from Dublin to Doonbeg, where his family is from, with no back-and-forth flight, but a late change to his schedule forced them to readjust, and a hotel in the Irish capital had not been vetted ahead of time by Secret Service.

“They had done all the advance work. And the facility, we knew, was safe and protected. And if you're going to stay in the Doonbeg area with a footprint of our size, that is the one facility that can accommodate that,” Short told reporters. “So that's the way we went about changing travel for this week.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459674-pence-staying-at-trump-resort-in-ireland-far-from-meetings

[Turbineguy]

1. What good is a vice-president

if he won't participate in the grift?

[spanone]

2. What good is the emoluments law?

[NewJeffCT]

3. Trump told him he'd only get kickbacks

if he stayed at a Trump property

[spanone]

4. President Obama would be held under the jail if he had done this only once.

trump does it damned near every weekend

[brush]

5. Fish gotta swim and grifters gotta grift.

[struggle4progress]

6. "Golly! Nobody ever told us that we needed to plan ahead!

So we're giving your money to Trump"

[demmiblue]

7. Suck-up Pence comments on the situation:

Link to tweet

He always looks chronically constipated.

[IcyPeas]

8. he had a hard time answering that question

had to ramble on before he could think of a half-assed answer